μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Fugitive transforms self to stone. Thrown to safety by pursuer.

Magic. · Transformation. · Miscellaneous transformation incidents. · Magic flight. · view the constellation · filed as D671.0.1

Filed across the traditions
  • Africa (Zulu) Held 144ff., (Bechuana): Brown, J. T. Among the Bantu Nomads (London, 1926) 181ff., (Northern Rhodesia): Worthington The Little Wise One (London, 1930) 135ff. No. 19, (Gan): Westermann Die Sprache der Guang (Berlin, 1922) 86f.
Within the index

Filed under Transformation flight. Fugitives transforms themselves in order to escape detection by the pursuer.

Filed beside it
Fugitive transformed by helper to escape detection Reversed transformation flight. Transformed pursuer. Koryak: Jochelson JE VI 363

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